Introduction of sustainable development in engineers' curricula: Problematic and evaluation methods

Nathalie Lourdel (1, 2, 3) , Natacha Gondran (1, 2, 3) , Valérie Laforest (1, 2, 4) , Christian Brodhag (1, 2, 3)

1 SITE-ENSMSE - Centre Sciences, Information et Technologies pour l'Environnement
2 Mines Saint-Étienne MSE - École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
3 IDEE-ENSMSE - Département Information, Décision et Evaluation Environnementale
4 MIRI-ENSMSE - Département Maîtrise des Impacts Environnementaux et des Risques Industriels

Owing to its complexity, sustainable development cannot be simply integrated as a supplementary course within the engineers' curricula. The first point of this paper aims to focalise on how to reflect pedagogically. After dealing with these questions, a tool that can evaluate the student's understanding of sustainable development concepts will be presented.

Mots clés: Education; Industrial engineering; Simulation; Sustainable development

Domaines: Environnement et Société

Nathalie Lourdel, Natacha Gondran, Valérie Laforest, Christian Brodhag. Introduction of sustainable development in engineers' curricula: Problematic and evaluation methods. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2005, Volume 6 (Issue 3), page 254 - 264. ⟨10.1108/14676370510607223⟩. ⟨emse-00411592⟩